Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-25
WHEELING, W. VA, MONDAY MORNING. APRIL %, 1887

lars ten years hence o, remember tn
apprehension and the tremor of entering
profession. / remember very we'll tn
man who greeted me in the ecclesiastica
court with the tip ends of the Ion,
fingers of the left hand; and remembe
the other man who took my hand in boil
of his, and said: 'God bless you, m,
brother; you have entered glorious pro
fession; be faithful to God and He will set
you through" Why, l feel this minut
the thrill of that hand-shaking, through
the man who gave me the Christian griI
has been in heaven twenty-five years
There are old men to-day who can lool
back to forty years ago, when some on'
said a kind word to them. Now, ole
men, pay back what you got then. 1t il
a great art for old men to be able to en-
courage the young, There are many
young people in our cities who have come
| from inland counties of our own State
from the granite hills of the North, from
the savannas of the South, from the
prairies of the West. They are here TO gel
their fortune They are in boarding,
house where everybody seems to be think.
ing of himself. They want companionship
and they want Christian encouragement.
Give it to them My word is to all clerks
in this house:
BE MIGHTIER SzIAN YOUR TEMPTATIONS.
A Sandwich Islander used to think when
he slew an enemy, all the stregth of that
enemy came into his own right arm. Aud
l have to tell you that every misfortune
you conquer is so much added to your
moral power. With omnipotence for a
lever, and the throne Of God for fulcrum,
you can move earth and heaven. While
there are other young men putting the
cup of sin to their lips, stOop down and
drink out of the fountains of God, and
you will rise up strong to thresh the noun
tains. The ancients used to think that
pearls were fallen rain drops, which, touch
ing the surface of the sea, hardened into
gems, then dropped to the bottom. have
to tell you to-day, that storms Of trial
have showered imperishable pearls into
many q young mans lap. o, young man
while you have goods to sell, remember
you have a soul to save. In a hospital q
Christian captain, wounded q few days
before, got deliriOus, and in the midnight
hour he sprang out on the floor of the hos
pital, thinking he was in the battle, cry
ing: Come on, boys! Forward! Chargew
and he was only battling the spectres of
his own brain. But it is no imaginary
conflict into which l call you, young man,
to-day. There are ten thousand spiritual
foes that would capture you. In the
name of God up and at them. After
the the last store has been closed,
after the last bank has gone down, after
the shuttle of the quick feet on the Custom
House steps has stopped, after the long
line of merchantmen on the sea have taken
sail of flame, after Brooklyn, and New
York, and London, and Vienna, have gone
down into the grave where Thebes, and
Babylon, and Tyre lay buried, after the
great fire bells of the Judgment Day have
tOlled at the burning of a wOrld-on that
day, all the affairs OF banking houses and
stores will come up for inspection. o,
what an opening Of account books! Side
by side, the clerks and the men who en-
ployed them-the people who owned
thread-and-need stores on the same foot
ing with the Stewards, and the Delanos,
and the Abbotts, and the Barings. Every
invoice made Out-all the labels of goods
all certificates OfstOck-all lists OF prices
all private marks Of the firm, now ex-
planned so everybody can understand
them. All the maps of cities that were
never built, but in which lots
were sold. All bargains. All gougings.
All snap judgments. All false entries.
All adulteration of liquors with copperas
and strychnine. All mixing of teas, and
sugars, and coffee, and syrups, with
cheaper materials. All embezzlement of
trust funds. All swindles in coal, and
iron, and silver, and stocks. All Swart-
outs, and HuntingtOns, and 'Ketchums.
On that day, when the cities of this world
are smoking in the last conlagration, the
trial will 90 on; and down in an avalanche
of destruction will go those who wronged
man or woman, insulted God and detied the
Judgment. o, that will he great day for
You, honest Christian clerk! No getting up
early; on retiring late; no walking around
with weary limbs; but a mansion in which
to live, and realm oflight, and love, and
Joy over which to hold everlasting dOmin-
ion. Hoist him up from glory to glory,
and from song to song and from throne to
throne; for while Others go down into the
sea with their gold like milestone hang
ing to their neck, this one shall come up
the heights of amethyst and alabaster,
holding in his right hand the pearl Of
greal price in a sparkling, glittering, fam
ing casket.